Means of Transport That Changed The World

Means of Transport That Changed The World
Tom Velcovsky, Stepanka Sekaninova, Martin Sodomka
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Hardback
h273 x 222mm - 64pg
18 Aug 2022
International import eta 7-19 days
9788000063553
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Age range 12 to 15We start our journey on boats and we end up in the space. A history of transport told by terrific illustrations. Travel back with us as we explore the world' s most important milestones in the development of travel and transportation. From little-noticed ideas that launched a technological revolution, through expeditions that reached for the stars, to tragedies that ended vast projects once and for all. As this book will show, every ending stands at the beginning of something new. Take a ride with us on the fastest, greatest, most awesome, most controversial machines that moved humanity forward.
THE CHILDREN' S BOOK COUNCIL: Hot Off the Press for July2022 What did you like about the book? This illustrated compendium takes a detailedlook at various innovations in transportation from the 3rd century BCE to thespace shuttle Columbia in 1981 (nicely laid out as a timeline on the front andrear endpapers). The list of vehicles covered will excite the interest of fansof trains, planes, and automobiles and includes both the well known(double-decker buses, the Model T, the Orient Express) and the obscure(Grenville' s steam carriage, the Tatra 87). Each two-page spread is dominatedby riveting, hand drawn illustrations by Sodomka, predominantly black-and-whitebut with striking color accents. Often there' s a full shot of the vehicle,accompanied by a close-up of an attribute of particular interest. We see anenlarged view of the Benz Patent Motorwagon, but also a detailed sketch of its4-stroke engine. A striking illustration of an iconic green VW Transporter(popularly known as the Microbus) appears alongside a smaller sketch of itsmilitary ancestor, the Type 82 Kubelwagen. Detailed and folksy essays accompanyeach vehicle, asking readers personal questions (what do you think about whenyou hear the word London? how many vans did you see on your way to school? ) andproviding historical information. Neatly drawn talk bubbles provide extrainformation. - Youth Services Book
Stepanka Sekaninova used to work as a TV reporter and in the production of children' s programs. Now she is a writer and a editor-in-chief, living in the Czech Republic. Tom Velcovsky is a graduate in Audiovisual Production from the Silesian University in Opava, where he specialized in screenwriting and storyboards. Before switching to children' s books and the making of comic strips, he worked in advertising. Martin Sodomka was born in 1968 and educated at the Department of Industrial Design Management of the Faculty of Engineering, Brno University of Technology. In 1993 he founded a graphics studio. In 2012 he published, at his own expense, How to Build a Car, the first book in the Technical Tales series; this book was inspired by work he had performed with his own hands on a broken-down 1963 Skoda Octavia, which he later drove through many European countries.

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